Barbados bound!!

Well here we are....finished at St. Lucia and bound for Barbados. This has been amazing so far!

Our journey started on Wednesday evening with a stay at the airport Fairmont and then up at 5:30am Thursday to get the kids ready for our day. We checked in and everything was great. We got on the plane bound for Chicago and our movie was 'Night at the Museum' (it was actually really good!)
Arrived in Chicago 4 hours later and then realized that our flight to San Juan was delayed and in fact didn't even have a gate to park at (that's never a good sign!!). We have since found out that the east coast has suffered a terrible ice storm and it paralized many airports (some passengers we have met arrived on board 2 days late...ick!). Our flight took off 1 1/2 hours late and we were finally off to San Juan. We arrived in SJ at 12:30am (they're time, 9:30 BC time) and found our airport hotel, which isn't a Fairmont but a Best Western...need I say more ;o) In the morning we got a tour of the old city, parliment buildings and of course the Bacardi plant. It was a great way to start the vacation!

Our ship is lovely and the service is impeccable (spelling is on vacation too!). The food has been out of this world and my weightloss is out the window but we are working out daily and enjoying it. Our first stop was Tortola, BVI, nice place, we found a taxi and the driver took us on a little tour of the Island and then for a day of snorkeling...wow...azure blue has a new meaning! Then we were off to St. Maarten. We shopped and shopped and shopped, and the kids are sick of it! Today we were at St. Lucia where we were on an excursion on the Brig Unicorn, one of the ships used in the Pirates of the Carribean movie, it was the Interceptor (haven't seen the movie but Cam says it's a cool ship!!). We snorkelled and played in the sand and Dwayne and I read our books.

The kids have met many great kids and Sarah has become fast friends with twin girls from Victoria, Maggie and Molly so they are our to dinner together tonight. Cam is having a great time also and is keeping us hopping! Sushi each night as a snack on deck 11 aft and then dinner later.

I will go and make sure I can get some pics onto the disk for room tomorrow.

We are off to Barbados and a snorkel adventure with Green Sea turtles and a shipwreck...check back for an update.

We miss you all but are having a great time reconnecting as a family, lots of great conversation and goals to be set.

Cheers to you all!